How to be a statistics skeptic

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"Number hygiene for journalists" is the provocative title of a post on Getstats, a project of the UK Royal Statistical Society. The original Word document is posted in a more accessible form here. A sample: "The wording of a question can hugely influence the answer you get ... What the public understands may not match the survey researcher's idea." Comment here and an interview with the director.

February 15, 2012

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